THE HIVE - SketchUp Design Tutorial as featured in Imagine FX magazine "FILM ART" issue 142

From "DUNE", "Star Wars", "Guardians Of The Galaxy", "Avengers Age Of Ultron" to the Bond movie "Spectre" this workflow has proven to be a fast and efficient way to design and concept, not only for a 2D production visual but also with the intention of it being built for filming. In this tutorial you I will guide you with commentary though my method of designing hard-surface industrial forms in the shape of this cool "Hive-mind"hub using SketchUp.

I go over designing directly in SketchUp, working with parallel projections to ensure correct visual proportions without the need for measurements. I cover booleaning into curved geometry to create slick surface details and smooth panel lines that are not often seen in SketchUp models, also demonstrating the power of arrays and components to make the software do the bulk of the time consuming modeling, I like to make sure I don't model anything twice!

I also cover how I use Keyshot to generate fast photo-real renders and demonstrate how I bring them to life in Photoshop resulting in cinematic, concept key frames.

Topics Covered

• Modeling sets in SketchUp
• Power of components
• Lighting & rendering in Keyshot
• Composing a cinematic shot
• Photoshop adjustments and corrections

Includes

• Video files
• Original SketchUp set model
• Keyshot file with camera animation as used in the trailer (Keyshot animation is a feature of the pro version only, eee Keyshot website for more details)
• Layered Photoshop PSD file

Requirements 

This tutorial is aimed at beginners to intermediate users of SketchUp

I use SketchUp Pro in this demo but it can all be done with the free version.

Plugins Used: Round Corner, Add Centerpoint and Joint Push Pull. Plugins can easily be installed from www.sketchucation.com.

About me

I'm a concept artist and designer with over 15 years of experience in the film industry.

Recent projects include Dune, Star Wars, Mission Impossible, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Spectre, Skyfall and many more.

My Internet Movie Database page https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1730612/